New phrase you can use today
Thursday, December 8th, 2005“One foot on the Mars bars”
I’m trying to get this phrase into common use. And putting it on my blog will do wonders *roll eyes*. On the plus side, once I tell the story of how this came about, people understand it and think it’s pretty good.
Anyway, here’s the background.
My brother (Scott) and sister (Kathleen) were at CVS one day buying something (photos probably) when the person behind the counter started giving Kathleen grief. Scott (being a good older brother) responds by nearly jumping over the counter and giving said person a ‘beat-down’. For those of you not familiar with CVS, they have their candy/gum below the checkout counter in front of you. And the counters are about waist high, so you can see where this is leading.
Good uses:
“That stupid security guard was just giving me a hard time about where I was parking. I had one foot on the Mars bars, and would have pounced if he didn’t walk away. And it was rainy and cold out.”
“The manager just left us standing there while the register was broken and they tried to get it working again. We waited for 20 minutes! 5 minutes more, and I would have put my foot on the Mars bars and fixed the thing myself.”
“Don’t make me put one foot on the Mars bars!”
Bad uses:
I haven’t thought of any yet. I’ll think of something. Or put it in a comment.